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| Cold day for a first race... (Read 408 times) |
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posted: 4/7/2007 at 10:09 PM |
...Okay, maybe not too cold compared to what I see y'all posting regularly here, but considering we've been in the 70's and 80's for weeks now, 25 degrees and windy was a chilly way to run my first ever race.... 5K in 34:02, 449th out of 553. Not breaking any world speed records here, but for a girl who couldn't walk more than 30 seconds without breaking out into hives and having to run for Benadryl a couple of months ago, I'm proud as punch. Your posts have been good advice and encouragement.  |
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posted: 4/7/2007 at 10:17 PM |
Very nice! Way to go on your first race!
Lynn B |
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posted: 4/7/2007 at 10:19 PM |
| Congratulations! When is the next race? |
~Michelle
Southeastern PA Group
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posted: 4/7/2007 at 10:26 PM |
Feeling all warm and fuzzy inside now, huh? 
Congratulations WW! |
Ricky
2008 Goals: sub-5 mile | sub-18 5k | sub-38 10k | sub-60 15k | sub-85 Half-M
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posted: 4/7/2007 at 10:37 PM |
| Way to Go on your first race. What's next.. |
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posted: 4/7/2007 at 10:39 PM |
I'm proud as punch.
Hehe, love that phrase ... and you should be! Congrats!
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posted: 4/7/2007 at 10:41 PM |
| Keep up that great work You will feel better and better! |
If Heisenberg was uncertain, why are you so sure?
5K goal 24:00 or less (PR 24:34)
10K goal 50:00 or less (PR 52:45)
HM goal 1:55:00 or less (PR 2:12:00)
Marathon Goal...Victoria Marathon 2008 (PR 4:47:23) |
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posted: 4/8/2007 at 10:45 PM |
| Congrats! I think that weather is even worse than my first race was a few weeks ago: 38 degrees and rain. Yuk! But it was still fun! |
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posted: 4/8/2007 at 11:58 PM |
Quote from Wonder Woman on 4/7/2007 at 10:09 PM:for a girl who couldn't walk more than 30 seconds without breaking out into hives and having to run for Benadryl a couple of months ago, I'm proud as punch. Your posts have been good advice and encouragement.
That combined with the weather makes your accomplishment that much more impressive! WTG! So, are you hooked!? When's your next race?
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.: 2008 Goals :.
• Get down to 123#s and STAY there!
• Run 1500 miles
• October 5 - 1st marathon - Milwaukee Lakefront - in my home state of WI
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posted: 4/9/2007 at 12:54 AM |
Suh Weet!!
I love cold weather running!
Good work Wonder Woman! |
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posted: 4/9/2007 at 8:29 PM |
| WTG!! Congrats on your first race! |
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson
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posted: 4/9/2007 at 10:29 PM |
| that's awesome! you should be proud as punch! |
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posted: 4/9/2007 at 11:51 PM
modified: 4/11/2007 at 1:19 AM |
| Aw, yep. I'm hooked for sure. I'm a lot more sore than I'd wanted to be (needed more warm-up and post-stretch, in retrospect), but I'm hooked. I actually got that runner's high that I doubted existed in the past. I did this race as a precursor to my first sprint triathlon, which is May 19. Hoping I'll be ready for that by then! Thanks again... I love this website! |
| I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.... You must run in such a way that you may be victorious. --Paul, Phil 2:16, 1Cor 9:24 |
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posted: 4/10/2007 at 12:06 AM |
| What is a sprint marathon? |
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posted: 4/10/2007 at 12:22 AM |
| Quote from Trent on 4/10/2007 at 12:06 AM: What is a sprint marathon?
I know a guy who tried to run one of these once. He ran the first couple of miles of Boston faster than his then current 5k PR pace. Got on TV and everything. There was a great photo of him pulling ahead of the women's leaders. And he'd started in the 1st coral. Pretty impressive. The rest of the race didn't go so well, however. He wound dropping out around mile 18. Alas.
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